marlfox24's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
impybelle's review
4.0
Definitely a book meant to be talked about with your kids as they read it. I wish the book were longer as it feels like her story is unfinished, but that could simply be that Makena as a character is someone I'd like to spend more time with. I like how Evette and Maritza are woven into the story without it feeling forced or weirdly done.
panda_incognito's review
3.0
This book needed to be longer to fully develop the story and characters, but it wasn't as preachy as I expected. Even though I wish that American Girl had focused on developing more POC characters as part of their regular line instead of creating an issue-driven separate series to focus on racial issues, this was pretty good.
I also appreciated the world-building and dialogue references to the pandemic as part of contemporary life, but I'm not sure when this is supposed to be set, since no one is wearing masks. I'm guessing this is probably set in the near future.
I also appreciated the world-building and dialogue references to the pandemic as part of contemporary life, but I'm not sure when this is supposed to be set, since no one is wearing masks. I'm guessing this is probably set in the near future.
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